1,029 Quotes About Lines

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.